Andrea Bræin Hovig

Acting

Andrea Bræin Hovig

Born

1973-07-19 (53)

Place of birth

Oslo, Norway

Known for

Acting

Credits

34 titles

Andrea Bræin Hovig is a Norwegian actress, singer and children's book author.

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 8 titles

Sick of Myself poster
7.1

Increasingly overshadowed by her boyfriend's recent rise to fame as a contemporary artist creating sculptures from stolen furniture, Signe hatches a vicious plan to reclaim her rightfully deserved attention within the milieu of Oslo's cultural elite.

Sick of Myself

2022

Love poster
6.8

Marianne, a doctor, and Tor, a nurse, avoid relationships. After meeting on a ferry where Tor seeks casual encounters, Marianne explores the possibility of spontaneous intimacy, questioning societal norms.

Love

2024

Maybe Elephants poster
6.1

Three rebellious teenage daughters, a restless mother, a father struggling with potatoes, and maybe some elephants, find themselves in Nairobi. What could possibly go wrong?

Maybe Elephants

2024

Dancing Queen 2 in Hollywood poster
5.6

No synopsis available yet.

Dancing Queen 2 in Hollywood

2025

Woke? poster
4.0

A woman takes a snap of a dude's behind on the bus - and gets confronted.

Woke?

2022

The Brothers Gruff Go to Splash World poster
6.3

When The Billy Goats Gruff go on a chaotic adventure to Splash World instead of the dull meadow, the irate troll under the bridge has other ideas and sets out to capture the brothers at any cost.

The Brothers Gruff Go to Splash World

2023

Dancing Queen poster
6.4

12-year-old Mina freaks out when famous hip-hop dancer ED Win moves to town and starts at her school. Mina falls in love and when ED announces he's forming a new dance group for a dance competition in town, Mina decides to audition. The only problem is that she can't dance.

Dancing Queen

2023

Light from the Chocolate Factory poster
7.2

Ingrid tries, together with several acquaintances, to compose a song for the wedding of a mutual friend. However, she's more occupied with her mother's death that she may have contributed to.

Light from the Chocolate Factory

2020

2010s · 13 titles

Hope poster
7.0

Together for 20 years, a couple that has grown apart over time receives difficult news that will impact the entire family. As they try to make sense of the changes, they end up rediscovering their love for one another.

Hope

2019

An Affair poster
5.4

A newly appointed high school teacher begins her job hoping for a fresh start, but her life takes an unsettling turn when a troubled student becomes fixated on her. As boundaries blur and personal and professional lines are tested, the situation escalates, forcing her to confront the consequences of desire, power, and responsibility.

An Affair

2018

The Birdcatcher poster
5.5

Norway, 1942, during World War II. After being separated from her family, Esther, a young Jewish girl from Trondheim, arrives at an isolated farm where she must assume a new identity in order to survive the Nazi persecution.

The Birdcatcher

2019

Anchors Up poster
6.3

After a brave rescue mission in stormy weather, a young rescue boat is headhunted to a larger harbor where he realizes that bigger is not always better.

Anchors Up

2017

Disco poster
5.3

On the surface 19-year-old Mirjam's life appears perfect. She is a world champion freestyle disco dancer and the pride of her modern, evangelical church. Yet her body is calling out for help and at the dance world championships, where she is defending her title, she collapses on stage. Her family's solution is for her to focus more on her faith. In search of answers, she turns to a stricter, more conservative church.

Disco

2019

I Belong poster
6.5

A nurse gets into a dispute at work because she switches to speaking English when she gets nervous. A translator compromises her integrity when persuaded to translate a book she doesn't believe in. An elderly woman and her daughter are humiliated when offered a present of one million kroner from a relative. A warm and nuanced film about people who all mean well, but end up hurting one another.

I Belong

2012

Beware of Children poster
7.3

During a break in school 13 year-old Lykke, the daughter of a prominent Labour Party member, seriously injures her classmate Jamie, the son of a high profile right-wing politician.

Beware of Children

2019

I'm the One You Want poster
6.8

What would you say about a female teacher falling in love with a 15-year-old? What would you think when you heard her confession? How do you set borders for someone's love and feelings?

I'm the One You Want

2014

All the Beauty poster
2.5

Sarah (Ann Eleonora Jørgensen) and David (Magnus Crepper) meet for the first time in ten years when she arrives at his summer residence. David needs help finishing a play, which turns out to be a dramatization of their long, troublesome relationship. The film presents three love stories about seemingly different couples; all named Sarah and David, but played by different actors in respectively their 20s, 30s and 40s.

All the Beauty

2016

Me and My Moulton poster
6.1

A seven-year-old girl longs for a bicycle so that she can be more like the other kids in her Norwegian town, but her embarrassingly unconventional, modernist architect parents see things differently. Academy Award-winning animator Torill Kove weaves memory and fantasy together in this droll and charming look at the pain of childhood alienation.

Me and My Moulton

2014

No artwork available
8.0

Inspired by "Me and My Moulton"

5 Sure Signs Your Parents Were Architects

2014

Apple poster
5.5

A young woman invites her literature teacher to a discussion on a story about a man who wants to freeze the moment. She suggests that he is writing to disguise his own inner desires. They fall in love, and life takes an unexpected turn.

Apple

2018

Retract poster
3.3

The unemployed performance artist Gritt struggles to make sense, as she moves below the successful surface of Oslo.

Retract

2017

2000s · 6 titles

Rafiki poster
5.2

Three friends - Julie, Mette and Naisha - are enjoying the first snow in the village. They have snowball fights with the boys and look forward to Christmas. One day Naisha suddenly disappears. With a secret address written in invisible ink as their only clue, they sneak onto the night train to the city. They need to find Naisha before the police do.

Rafiki

2009

No artwork available
5.7

Pål and Catherine would like to have a baby, but their efforts are hampered by bureaucracy.

Hovmod

2000

Hold My Heart poster
6.6

Tyven, Tyven ("Hold My Heart") follows the tense relationship between a father and his young daughter. The father, Harald, has divorced Cecilie, his wife, after an ugly breakup which involved accusations of spousal abuse and child molesting. Furious, Harald kidnaps his 7-year-old daughter, Lisa, who he has been forbidden any contact with. Over the course of a few days, the father and daughter grow closer. The police, meanwhile, have organized a manhunt for Harald, and only one policewoman believes he is not a dangerous man.

Hold My Heart

2002

House of Fools poster
6.2

At the psychiatric clinic Varden the attendants are mad and the inmates are sane.

House of Fools

2008

The 7 Deadly Sins poster
8.0

Feature film length collection of seven short films about the biblical seven sins by preliminary younger Norwegian directors.

The 7 Deadly Sins

2000

No artwork available
7.5

The violinist Ole Bull was Norway's first superstar. He played at the top of the Great Pyramid of Giza, founded the first Norwegian theater and his own state in America, and is probably the only Norwegian who has sold his bath tub water on perfume bottles.

Ole Bull - Himmelstormeren

2006

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